1. Steven Page was a founding member, lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the music group Barenaked Ladies.
31 Facts About Steven Page
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Steven Page was born in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, in Ontario.
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Steven Page's father, Victor, was a drummer, as is his brother, Matthew.
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Steven Page was a member of the Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir.
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Steven Page wrote songs with his friend Geoff Pounsett and made tapes of those songs.
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Ed Robertson invited Steven Page to perform with him at a charity show under the name Barenaked Ladies in 1988, and ultimately, the show led the pair to full-time careers in the band.
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Steven Page attended York University in the English program, with a minor in theory and choral studies, but dropped out to focus on the band's rising success.
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Steven Page played acoustic and electric guitar for Barenaked Ladies, both in the studio and live.
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In 2002, Steven Page won an International Achievement Award at the SOCAN Awards in Toronto for the song "Pinch Me", which he co-wrote with Robertson.
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On February 24,2009, it was announced that Steven Page would be leaving the group to pursue other opportunities, including solo projects and theatre work, and that the remainder of the band would continue in his absence.
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Steven Page believes that his much-publicized drug arrest in Syracuse, New York hastened his already imminent split with the band.
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On March 25,2018, Steven Page performed with Barenaked Ladies for the first time in nine years at the Juno Awards in Vancouver, in celebration of the band's induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
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Steven Page began corresponding with Duffy after the latter replied to his fan letter.
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Steven Page was ultimately invited to co-write with Duffy in the early 1990s, and several co-written songs subsequently appeared on Barenaked Ladies albums, starting with Maybe You Should Drive.
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Steven Page recorded the song "He's a Really Useful Engine" for the soundtrack of the 2000 children's film Thomas and the Magic Railroad.
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Steven Page's next release was A Singer Must Die, a studio recording of songs he performed in a pair of concerts, Songbook II, with the contemporary music group Art of Time Ensemble.
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Steven Page participated in other concerts with Art of Time Ensemble, including Take This Waltz and a performance of the Beatles' Abbey Road album, using semi-classical arrangements by Art of Time Ensemble.
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In November 2011, Steven Page performed a songbook concert, Songbook 6, featuring new compositions.
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The singer's first album of original material under his own name, Steven Page One, was released on October 19,2010.
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Steven Page toured the record across Canada and the US, including a string of shows supporting the Goo Goo Dolls.
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Steven Page performed Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" at the state funeral of Jack Layton on August 27,2011.
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On January 17,2012, Steven Page released a new single containing two new songs, "A Different Sort of Solitude" and "Manchild".
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On September 14,2018, Steven Page issued his follow-up record, Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt.
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On July 16,2016, Steven Page performed a show as a member of the band Trans-Canada Highwaymen, a supergroup of fellow Canadian musicians, including Moe Berg of the Pursuit of Happiness, Chris Murphy of Sloan, and Craig Northey.
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Steven Page was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish mother and a father of Anglo Protestant background.
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Steven Page was arrested for cocaine possession on July 18,2008.
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Steven Page was found guilty of possession and ordered to drug treatment and to stay clean for six months.
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Steven Page purchased a house in Fayetteville, New York with then-girlfriend Christine Benedicto in 2009, and split his time between there and Toronto, where his children reside.
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Steven Page stated publicly in 2011 that he suffers from bipolar disorder.
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Steven Page said that he has gone through periods of self-medicating to relieve the symptoms.
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Steven Page has been a contestant on the Canadian game show Bumper Stumpers.